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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1844
Page
7
From a neutral stance the writer condemns party excess and the act of exhuming the dead to attack character. They urge Americans of all parties and the press to reject this precedent and focus on the country’s general issues and noble constitution.
A moral essay argues temperate drinking defies fixed limits. It likens drinker guidance to head measure, noting overestimation causes drunkenness. The piece suggests revising laws and Bible views, urging total abstinence until issues are settled.
A local exhibit this week presents a philosophical apparatus demonstrating ocean phenomena. It argues for moon and earth rotation as primary causes, shows elevated sea levels in the Gulf of Mexico, and explains westward tropical currents and the five great oceanic vortices moving waters from poles to tropics and back.
The display catalogs tides in the Atlantic and Pacific, high tides in the Amazon and Red Sea, small tides in the Mediterranean, and whirlpools on Norway and Arctic coasts. It invites readers who have not seen the apparatus to attend, noting fifty cents admission and promising gratification or conviction.
A Columbus reader appeals for ongoing temperance support urging readers to join a crusade against rum sellers. He warns how drinking destroyed his brother and others, laments social pressures, and urges Christians and patriots to act to save families and the nation.
A well regulated Printing Office is hailed as the highest model for learning and a premier seminary of literary experience. Graduates are praised as disciplined minds and mature judgments, among the best practical men in any community.
News notes cover a Charlotte mint fire suspected arson, Georgia Railroad punctuality, Havana port traffic in June, a Dutch duel murder, toothache remedies, shipwreck losses, Catholic bishops counts, a new Alabama iron factory, a South Carolina teacher’s suicide, declining Boston paupers, Iowa Territory population, grape seeds as coffee substitute, mile measurements, humor on melancholy, Newark gun accident, Boston fines for smoking, Louisiana sugar forecast, New Orleans mortality, and a Treasury note theft conviction.
Since the latest Liverpool advices the Augusta cotton market has fallen with price estimates at 44 a 6 cents. Liverpool stock on the 19th last month stood at 1,000,8000 bales, about 40,000 more than ever before. Large supplies and ample crops forecast explain the soft prices, while bagging demand rises with the crop. Groceries remain dull with limited demand from trade and retail.
Fragmentary notes show an exchange table with specie basis terms and percentages. The lines mention 090% and unclear references to weights or rates. Reading is incomplete and names or places are not identifiable.
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